The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures

Sponsored by the HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ISRAEL and published by Brandeis university Press

Editorial Board

Prof. Yosef Kaplan, Senior Editor, Department of the History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former chairman of the Historical Society of Israel

Prof. Miriam Eliav-Feldon, professor emerita, Department of History, Tel Aviv University, chairperson of the Historical Society of Israel

Prof. Michael Heyd, z”l, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former chairman of the Historical Society of Israel

Prof. Ora Limor, professor emerita, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Prof. Shulamit Shahar, professor emerita, Department of History, Tel Aviv University

Blood and Boundaries

Stuart B. Schwartz

The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism

Laura Engelstein

In Pursuit of Civility

Keith Thomas

Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000

Peter Burke

Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Paul R. Katz

Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Patrick J. Geary

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

G. W. Bowersock

Three Ways to Be Alien

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Ethics through Literature

Brian Stock

The Roman Republic in Political Thought

Fergus Millar

Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire